Meu sonho era vestir essa blusa: percepções das pessoas idosas estudantes do IFPE Campus Recife sobre as ações inclusivas para a população idosa na política de assistência estudantil

Abstract

The right to lifelong education is guaranteed in the Brazilian Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDB), Law n.9,394 of December 20, 1996, and also in the Elderly Person Statute (EPI), Law n.10,741 of 1st. of October 2003, of Brazil, as well as the rights to inclusion and school retention that are provided for in Decree 7,234 of July 19, 2010, which establishes the National Student Assistance Program. The growth of the elderly population in Brazil and in most countries around the world is a reality. The presence of elderly people in national, regional and local professional and technological education is identified on the Nilo Peçanha platform. We observed a lack of studies on the role of elderly people in secondary courses at Federal Institutes of professional and technological education. This study was carried out at IFPE Campus Recife and its general objective is to understand how elderly students at IFPE perceive the contribution of inclusive actions for the elderly population in IFPE's professional and technological education student assistance policy in realizing their educational rights. To this end, we chose the following specific objectives: 1) Identify the population of elderly students at Campus Recife in order to outline an identity profile of this group, characterizing their belonging and demands for access, permanence and success; 2) Identify which inclusion actions are developed by Campus Recife student assistance for elderly students; 3) develop an educational product with relevant themes, the result of field research, in the format of short audios and videos using the dimensions of accessibility. As a methodological approach, we chose the qualitative method, adopting the technical procedure of the case study. From the point of view of the objectives, this is an exploratory and descriptive research, and, therefore, we will have the stages of bibliographical, documentary, and field research. When processing data, we use the content analysis technique in Bardin. The educational product was prepared based on the analysis of the material collected in the field research, and is an Information Guide with suggested materials, various videos, and videos of elderly people participating in the research, and images of participating professionals. The research assumption was confirmed when we inferred that elderly people who seek the Federal Institute of Pernambuco realize dreams by accessing professional and technological education and seek to continue or return to the world of work. The academic trajectory, however, is permeated with challenges for these students, both in their academic and personal lives. Professionals are encouraged to seek new knowledge on the topic.